# 1932 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1932 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Archbishop of Wales – Alfred George Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph
* Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
** Pedrog (outgoing)
** Gwili (incoming)

## Events

* 25 January – Leif Jones is created Baron Rhayader.
* 1 March (Saint David's Day) – Members of Plaid Cymru on two occasions replace the Union Jack flying over Caernarfon Castle with a flag displaying the red Welsh Dragon.
* c. August – The Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl, is completed.
* Plaid Cymru adopts self-government as its official policy.
* Hilary Marquand’s economic surveys of South Wales highlight the depressed conditions in the area during the Great Depression in the United Kingdom.

## Arts and literature

* Frank Brangwyn completes the Empire Panels.
* Welsh-language newspaper Y Cymro is launched.

### Awards

* National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Port Talbot)
* National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – D. J. Davies, "Mam"
* National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Thomas Eurig Davies, "A Ddioddefw a Orfu"

### New books
#### English language

* Margiad Evans – Country Dance
* Elisabeth Inglis-Jones – Crumbling Pageant
* Howard Spring – Darkie and Co.
* Hilda Vaughan – The Soldier and the Gentlewoman
* Francis Brett Young – The House Under the Water

#### Welsh language

* Richard Ithamar Aaron – Hanes Athroniaeth
* T. H. Parry-Williams – Canu Rhydd Cynnar
* David Walters (Eurof) – Pwerau'r Deufyd

### Music

* W. Bradwen – Mab yr ystorm
* Grace Williams
** Suite for orchestra
** Two Psalms for contralto, harp and strings

## Film

* 13 June – Port Talbot-born English actress Peg Entwistle signs a contract with RKO in the United States.
* 16 September – Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" of the giant Hollywoodland sign.
* 20 October – Release of comedy horror The Old Dark House, set entirely in Wales but filmed wholly in Hollywood.
* Edmund Gwenn appears in Tell Me Tonight, Money for Nothing, Condemned to Death, Love on Wheels, Lord Babs and Frail Women.

## Broadcasting

The broadcasting committee of the Welsh Parliamentary Labour Party obtains agreement from the BBC to broadcast a fortnightly programme and religious content in the Welsh language.

## Sport

* Boxing
** 3 February – Jack Petersen beats Dick Power to take the Welsh heavyweight title.
** 23 May – Jack Petersen wins the British light-heavyweight title against Harry Crossley.
** 12 July – Jack Petersen wins the British heavyweight title against Reggie Meen.

## Births

* 12 March – John Harris, dean of Brecon (died 2019)
* 20 March – Garfield Owen, Wales dual-code rugby international
* 6 April – Leon Eagles, actor (died 1997)
* 28 May – John Savage, prime minister of Nova Scotia (died 2003)
* 30 May – Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, politician (died 2018)
* 31 May – Glyn Davies, footballer (died 2013)
* 22 June – Mary Wynne Warner, mathematician (died 1998)
* 30 June – Derek Tapscott, footballer (died 2008)
* 10 July – Maureen Guy, mezzo-soprano (died 2015)
* 27 July – Dennis Callan, footballer (died 2006)
* 2 August – Kenneth Bowen, concert tenor (died 2018)
* 12 August – Gwilym Jenkins, statistician and systems engineer (died 1982)
* 31 August – Colin Gale, footballer (died 2008)
* 9 September – Alice Thomas Ellis, born Ann Margaret Lindholm in Liverpool, novelist (died 2005)
* 8 October – Ray Reardon, snooker player (died 2024)
* 18 October – Don Devereux, dual-code rugby player (died 1995)
* 24 October – Allan Rogers, politician
* 16 November – Onllwyn Brace, Wales rugby union captain (died 2013)
* 21 November – Alvan Williams, footballer (died 2003)
* 1 December – Cissy Davies, Olympic gymnast
* 7 December – Elystan Morgan, politician
* 15 December – John Meurig Thomas, chemist (died 2020)
* date unknown – Richard Cyril Hughes, historian

## Deaths

* 27 February – Dicky Owen, Wales rugby union international, 55 (suicide)
* 3 March – Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist, 80
* 10 April – Gwyn Thomas, cricketer, 41
* 14 May – John Hughes, composer of Cwm Rhondda, 58
* 8 June – Margaret Nevinson, suffrage campaigner, 74
* 28 June – Thomas Phillips Price, landowner, industrialist and politician, 88
* 9 July – John Owen Williams (Pedrog), minister and poet
* 10 July – Martha Hughes Cannon, Welsh-born US physician, politician and campaigner, 75
* 20 July – Bill Beynon, British bantamweight boxing champion, 41 (killed in mining accident)
* 23 July – Tenby Davies, half-mile world champion runner, 48
* 30 August – Conway Rees, Wales rugby union international, 62
* 11 September – Aneurin Rees Wales rugby union international, 74
* 16 September – Peg Entwistle, actress, 24 (suicide)
* 26 October – William Howell Davies, merchant and politician, 80
* 25 November
** John Williams, recipient of the Victoria Cross, 75
** Hugh Hughes, trade union leader, 54